Taken by Geoff
As I’m writing this, I’m in Samara, Costa Rica. There’s still a lot to write about my Costa Rican travels, but that doesn’t mean that travel plans aren’t being made in the meantime. As has been the plan for awhile now, the next stop for Elani and me is Tarifa, Spain (after a brief stop in Malaga, where our flight lands). After five weeks there, it’s off to Lisbon, Portugal for three weeks. During that time, I’m off to a seminar on classical Portuguese fencing with the folks from the classical fencing school I attended in Seattle and their affiliate schools, which I’m very excited about. Our last two weeks will be spent in Germany (exact location to be determined). That brings us to the end of June and of our visa in the EU, so where to after that?
Bali, Indonesia. It was where Elani and I spent our honeymoon, and it’s high on our list of places to spend more time. Also, we found a pretty good deal on flights from Berlin to Bali, and to seal the deal, that puts us there right at the peak of kiteboarding season.
It appears that it’s pretty easy for visitors to get a 60 day visa in Indonesia, so our plan is to stay there until that runs out. Bali is a small island and it’s getting to be time to hop around a bit less, so we’re going to use Sanur (a small beach suburb of the major city of Denpasar) as our home base.
That moves the big question mark out to the end of August, and at that time we’ll be setting out from a spot that’s nicely situated just south of mainland Asia and north of Australia, so there are a lot of possibilities for what’s next!
New Zeland has some amazing landscape. Australia and the great Barrior Reef also sounds amazing . So many choices it isn’t easy to decide ?
Yeah, I know! Those are both amazing sounding places, and then there is southern Asia as well. It’s going to be so hard to decide!